PT-2016-6704 · WordPress · Wordpress

Dan Moen + 1 · Published 2016-06-29 · Updated 2018-07-31 · CVE-2016-5836

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.5.3

Description The issue concerns the oEmbed protocol implementation, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.5.3, update to version 4.5.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-5836

DLA-1452-1

DLA-633-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 22

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5836 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5836 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-1452-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5836 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12895 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5836 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5836 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5836 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/news/2016/06/wordpress-4-5-3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5836 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1452-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5.3 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5836 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5836 · Note